Paul shows a few ways to temporarily attach a guide block to help keep your chisel square when chopping a mortise. This is particularly useful when you don’t have a guide made or a flat surface to register the guide against or are only chopping a few mortises.
Paul shows you how to make some clamping blocks which help you when edge jointing a waney edged board as they enable you to evenly clamp them.
Turnbuttons are a very traditional method for anchoring tabletops. Paul shows how to make them.
Square drawbore pegs are a feature commonly used in craftsman style furniture. Paul goes through how to drill and then square the exterior of the hole and shape the peg to fit.
Paul shows how you can use a drawbore with an offset hole in the mortice and tenon to pull the joint together. Drawbores are a feature that have been used for centuries, so link past techniques with present day woodworking.
Do you ever wish you had some square cut nails for a project but find the price prohibitively expensive? Paul shows how you can take regular round nails and make them square using a couple of hammers.
Have you been looking for a way to hang your wall shelf or clock? Ever wondered what a split cleat or french cleat is? Paul shares this traditional method that really works.
Need wider stock for a table top, panel or other project? Paul has shown various techniques that will get you where you need to be, from a basic edge jointing, to jointing thick stock and using timber dogs instead of clamps.
Have you ever read about timber dogs, pinch dogs or nail dogs and wondered what they were and how they where used? Or maybe wondered how woodworkers jointed two pieces of wood when clamps weren’t as common. Paul shares the idiosyncrasies involved in edge jointing using these tools.
No matter the reason, this video show you how simple it is to cut new saw teeth in any handsaw. Yes, that means from small dovetail saws to the largest hand saws you have. If you have a saw you ruined, then file off the teeth and reach for your junior hacksaw. You are on your way to a saw tooth recut you won’t regret no matter the maker old and new.